Pay Raise in Anaheim

Watch out Anaheim, big-city politics has hit our town. Donald Yvaska was so right in his letter (Jan. 10). We are the laughingstock of Orange County.

The latest is the underhanded way in which some City Council members chose to raise their pay. Oddly enough, in the same edition of The Times (Jan. 19) was a story about the Tustin City Council being reluctant to raise its salaries from $400 to $440 for fear that the city would move toward having full-time, paid politicians.

In a county where the TINCUP ordinance prohibits the supervisors from voting on an issue involving the donor of campaign contributions exceeding $1,704, Anaheim council members are not a bit shy about proposing and voting upon a billboard issue where the campaign contributions total so far: $2,500 to Mayor Bay; $3,000 to Councilman Ehrle from Regency Outdoor Advertising and $3,450 and $2,995 to Bay and Ehrle, respectively, from the advertiser’s attorney, Floyd Farano.

Are these civic-minded citizens of Anaheim wishing only to serve our town or what?

ANN R. BIEN

Anaheim